Where did you learn that xian clergy in Europe did not receive automatical exemption from combat? Roncalli was both a military priest and some sort of medic, because he wanted extra money to send to his very poor family. The job of military priest was effortless and well-paid and clergy fought for it (once positions were filled, the rest was dismissed). Garibaldi famously made by mistake a Jew from Naples into a military priest, you did not hear that one?
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